Hi Everyone,
I made a quick stop at Fort Smallwood after work. Sightings of note around the pond were one PIED-BILLED GREBE (first of the season here for me), LITTLE BLUE HERON (1 adult), SNOWY EGRET (2), GREAT EGRET (1), SEMIPALMATED PLOVER (my first at the park), and a pair of NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRDs with three recently fledged young. Common Buckeyes are everywhere in the park today. There were also a couple Black Swallowtails.
Afterward, a couple friends joined me for kayaking Rock Creek, where we had the following:
Wood Duck--5 (Yates Pond in Weinberg Park)
Mallard--20
DC Cormorant--2
Great Blue Heron--3
Little Blue Heron--1 adult
Black-crowned Night-heron--1 adult
Turkey Vulture--2
Osprey--3
Bald Eagle--1 adult
Spotted Sandpiper--2
Least Sandpiper--1
Laughing Gull--2
Ring-billed Gull--1
Herring Gull--3
Caspian Tern--8
RT Hummingbird--1
Eastern Kingbird--1
Last night on my back patio, Becky and I were delighted to find another Eastern Worm Snake, the second we've found in the yard.
Good birding,
Bill
Bill Hubick
Pasadena, MD
http://www.billhubick.com
Bill Hubick
Pasadena, Maryland
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